Following an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report that alleged foreign-funded NGOs were creating obstacles to India’s economic growth, the Home Ministry has clamped down on Greenpeace, an international campaign group present in 40 countries.

In a letter dated 13th June, the Ministry has directed the Reserve Bank of India that all foreign contributions originating from Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation — two principal international contributors to Greenpeace India Society — must be kept on hold until individual clearances are obtained from the Ministry for each transaction.

The RBI has been asked to direct banks to this effect. The central bank has also been asked to report to the government if any government department or institution is receiving such funds.

Greenpeace was specifically targeted because the IB report had charged it with orchestrating “massive efforts to take down India’s coal-fired power projects and mining activity.”

So Greenpeace India is funded by Greenpeace International? There are laws restricting the amount foreign companies can donate to NZ political parties. Should money from Greenpeace International be seen as a foreign election donation?

And they have problems in NZ also. They had a website attacking Simon Bridges, which they have closed down as the Electoral Commission said it was an election advertisement that doesn’t have a promoter statement. They could of course have simply stuck a promoter statement on the website, but I guess that would not help their court case where they claim to be a charity, not a lobby group.

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I think Greenpeace long since lost their warm-fuzzy, “friends-of-the-earth-with-no-political-axe-to-grind” persona.

They may have had some sort of genuine-caring-for-the- environment credentials years ago, but those days are long gone.

I think what did it for me – (turning off Greenpeace i mean)- was the antics and outright life-threatening shenanigans they got up to some years ago in the Southern Ocean against some Whalers who were merely going about their lawful business.

Oh, and a conversation I had in Wellington with one of their street coin collectors. It took about five seconds flat to establish that he was as red as they come. Couldn’t really make out whether he was a Commie or an Anarchist!

No! Greenpeace in my book lines up with the Klu Klux Klan, the Provisional IRA and this latest bunch in Syria.

Yes it does have to be one or the other. When they went back to Court to get their charity status back they told the Court they would refrain from political lobbying if they got the status back. It appears they got it back so the website attacking Simon Bridges would, in my view, be at least contempt of court.
( I noticed when they took it down it was referred to as a hoax site by the tame MSM —yeah right !!)

Why do I get the feeling we will see an opportunity to pot them in the next few months. They won’t be able to help themselves. Judges don’t take kindly to being fooled either. I fucking hate them and they’re on my shit list so I’ll be keeping an eye out.

I wonder what the Electoral commission view would be on the two minute infomercial opposing drilling off Taranaki “That will threaten the last fifty five Mauis dolphins.” TV one News last night.
Full on Jane Goodall fronted Green Party advertorial with no authentication or appropriate names displayed.

I had thought that most Greenpeace money raised within NZ was remitted overseas. Even for charitable organisations as far as I know tax rebates are not available for funds raised for overseas work even if the organisation concerned has NZ charitable status (eg donations made via NZ churches for ‘overseas missions’). In NZ’s case I have wondered whether amounts remitted overseas by Greenpeace should be subject to a with-holding tax.

I see one of their executives commutes from Luxemburg to Amsterdam by plane for work (naughty CO2 emissions), bunch of self serving hypocrites. As for Lucy Lawless supporting them (enough said). I avoid them like the plague when in the CBD.

Charitable status and tax exempt status are not the same. I think the latter is the responsibility of the IRD.

But please nobody try to get Greenpeace’s tax exempt status removed. Every time they open their mouths they make the five headed opposition monster seem even more extreme. And they would get considerable sympathy if the IRD went after them. Nobody likes the IRD. It’s analogous to the treatment the IRS in the US is currently getting for going after conservative groups.

I don’t avoid them when they are collecting. I get right in their smelly pathetic faces and tell them to fuck off. One day I took a complaint to Westfield against them, saying that they are a political lobby group who should not be allowed to harass shoppers. I don’t think my point was supported by the shopping centre, but I certainly made a point and if more citizens were publicly abusive towards these cunts, then the message might start to get through. If I was younger, I would seriously think about slapping some of these assholes just to start a debate. Like the Nazis in the’20s they feed off public apathy.